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... nature for the study of the naked figure ; and it appears that West was early aware of some of these advantages . When he was some eight years old , a party of roaming Indians paid their summer visit to Spring- field , and were much ...
... nature for the study of the naked figure ; and it appears that West was early aware of some of these advantages . When he was some eight years old , a party of roaming Indians paid their summer visit to Spring- field , and were much ...
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... nature of man - an assurance that his land will be the refuge of science and know- ledge , when in the old age of Europe they shall have forsaken her shores . All things of heavenly origin move westward , and Truth and Art have their ...
... nature of man - an assurance that his land will be the refuge of science and know- ledge , when in the old age of Europe they shall have forsaken her shores . All things of heavenly origin move westward , and Truth and Art have their ...
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... nature and propriety in his noble work of " The Death of Wolfe . " The multitude acknowledged its excellence at once . The lovers of old art , the ma- nufacturers of compositions called by courtesy clas sical , complained of the ...
... nature and propriety in his noble work of " The Death of Wolfe . " The multitude acknowledged its excellence at once . The lovers of old art , the ma- nufacturers of compositions called by courtesy clas sical , complained of the ...
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... nature , was never before undertaken by any painter . But the imagi- nation of West was unable to cope with such glo- rious themes ; the soft , the graceful , and the do- mestic were more suited to his talents . Several of the subjects ...
... nature , was never before undertaken by any painter . But the imagi- nation of West was unable to cope with such glo- rious themes ; the soft , the graceful , and the do- mestic were more suited to his talents . Several of the subjects ...
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... nature cold and unimpassioned ; his religion taught him peace , his situation whispered prudence , and the artist dismissed civil broils from his mind , and addressed himself to more profitable contemplations . He saw his reward in ...
... nature cold and unimpassioned ; his religion taught him peace , his situation whispered prudence , and the artist dismissed civil broils from his mind , and addressed himself to more profitable contemplations . He saw his reward in ...
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Seite 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Seite 131 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Seite 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Seite 125 - Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Seite 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Seite 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Seite 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Seite 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...
Seite 143 - Belvidere, and all the grand works of ancient art. They were executed in a very superior style to those justly admired copies, being with their accompaniments terrific and grand in the highest degree. The Artist has endeavoured to emulate the grandeur of those seen in his vision, and to apply it to modern Heroes, on a smaller scale.